Anime fans are in for a real treat as we head into the new year, now that several highly-anticipated new titles are starting to roll in over the next couple weeks. One show we’re looking forward to is Jujutsu Kaisen. In January, the show’s third season will depict the brutal battle royale — known as the Culling Game — that fans of the book series have been waiting to see onscreen.
Also on our watch-list is Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, the new Netflix feature film directed by Shingo Yamashita, a thoroughly modernized take of the old Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. It’s a story that’s been reimagined on film several times (most recently by Studio Ghibli) but never quite like this.
And while we’re still coping with the fact that My Hero Academia is done forever, we’re happy to get the season 2 premiere of the spinoff prequel, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes in January.
While you’ll find most of these new drops on Crunchyroll, you can also find some of them on other streaming services like Hulu and Netflix. If you want to mix things up, don’t forget that there are platforms that offer free anime, too. And if you’re looking to watch something right now, check out our list of 8 shows you must watch before the end of 2025.
Jujutsu Kaisen, season 3 (Jan. 8)
It’s been over two years since the last season of Jujutsu Kaisen aired and, at long last, season 3 will premiere on Jan. 8. The series, adapted from Gege Akutami’s wildly popular manga which has over 100 million copies in circulation, follows high schooler Yuji Itadori, whose body becomes the vessel for Ryomen Sukuna, a powerful Jujutsu Sorcerer. This season is based on the Culling Game arc, a deadly battle royale between sorcerers and other Curse Users, and one of the most significant events in the story. New episodes arrive at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT on Crunchyroll.
Spy x Family, Season 3
The latest season of this comedy favorite premiered in October, and you can tune in to the season 3 finale on Saturday, Dec. 27 at 11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT on Crunchyroll or Hulu. This season on Spy x Family sent Loid on an infiltration mission inside a prestigious school to track a target, facing enemy threats along the way.
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, Season 2
Now that My Hero Academia is over for good (I’m not crying, you’re crying), at least we’ve got My Hero Academia: Vigilantes to look forward to. The spinoff series, which takes place before the events of the main series, returns on Jan. 5 for a second season. College student Koichi, who goes by the name The Crawler, returns to dish out justice outside the law, along with fellow vigilantes Knuckleduster and Pop Step, as they face their toughest battles yet. Episodes will air on Crunchyroll.
Golden Kamuy
The fifth and final season of the historical adventure series Golden Kamuy arrives on Jan. 5. Set in and around Hokkaido, the series focuses on Saichi Sugimoto, a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, who partners with an Ainu girl named Asirpa to find a legendary stash of gold that’s been buried somewhere around the Ainu’s ancestral homeland. You can watch all four previous seasons of Golden Kamuy on Crunchyroll, but a feature film, Golden Kamuy: Sapporo Beer Kōjō-hen, which precedes this final season canonically, was only just released in theaters this fall and isn’t streaming yet.
Roll Over and Die
Flum, the hero of Roll Over and Die, has been gifted with the “Reversal” ability, but unfortunately, that skill has proven useless in battle. Eventually, after Flum is sold into slavery by a fellow comrade, she realizes she has two choices: to take up the cursed sword that inevitably brings death to its wielder, or be eaten by monsters. When she makes her decision, she learns that her “Reversal” affinity might actually come in handy after all. The first season of Roll Over and Die, based on the novels-turned-manga series, is set to premiere on Jan. 8.
Dark Moon: The Blood Altar
You can’t go wrong with an anime series based around K-Pop boy bands. The real-life members of the band Enhypen inspired this new series about seven young men who are students at Decelis Academy. Also, they also happen to be vampires. Meanwhile across town, their rivals (inspired by the Japanese pop group &team), are werewolves. When a new student Sooha arrives to town, horrible things start happening, and secrets about the boys’ pasts are revealed. Dark Moon: The Blood Altar comes to Crunchyroll on Jan. 9 (time TBA).
Hell’s Paradise, season 2 (Jan. 11)
Set in Edo Japan, Hell’s Paradise follows a ninja named Gabimaru who is sentenced to death but seems impervious to it. Realizing he can’t be killed, his executioner, Yamada Asaemon Sagiri, offers him the chance to be pardoned of his crimes if he can locate the elixir of life. The two are paired together as they travel to Shinsenkyo, a legendary realm where the elixir is purported to be, on a mission to find it. A new season of Hell’s Paradise premieres Jan. 11 at 10:15 a.m. ET/7:15 a.m. PT.
Oshi no Ko, Season 3
While HiDive exclusively streamed Oshi no Ko for its first two seasons, Crunchyroll has picked up its third installment. The third season debuts Jan. 14 and picks up with B-Komachi, Aqua and Akane all experiencing their own career success. Meanwhile, Ruby gets clever as she tries to uncover what really happened with Gorou and Ai’s deaths (time TBA).
Love Through a Prism
A Japanese student studying at the the prestigious Saint Thomas Art Academy in early-1900’s London finds herself enchanted by a talented young painter in Love Through A Prism. The more time the pair spends together, the more their relationship, initially a competitive artistic rivalry, blossoms into something more romantic. Written by Yoko Kamio, creator of Boys Over Flowers, the series consists of 20 episodes and will stream exclusively on Netflix starting on Jan. 15.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Season 2
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End takes place in a fantasy world where Frieren, an elven mage with a long life span, heads out on a journey to the resting place of souls to reunite with her former comrade Himmel, a human who has died of old age. Guilty that she didn’t spend more time with Himmel before he died, Frieren sets out to offer Himmel a proper goodbye, along with Fern, an orphaned child that Himmel had adopted. Season 2 of the series finds Friern on the road to Ende, where she must confront new threats to her newfound party. The new season will stream on Crunchyroll starting Jan. 16.
Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (Jan. 22)
Animation creator Shingo Yamashita, up until now best known for directing opening sequences for acclaimed titles such as Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man, and Urusei Yatsura, makes his full-length directorial debut with Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, which arrives on Netflix Jan. 22. The film is an adaptation of the Japanese folk tale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, about a baby named Kaguya-hime, sent from the Moon to live on Earth, who is discovered inside the stalk of a bamboo plant. Here, a telephone pole is swapped in for a bamboo stalk, and instead of being a princess, as she is in the original telling, Kaguya is a musician and internet celebrity. This modernized adaptation features original new music, 3D camera work, and Yamashita’s bold and brilliant signature visuals.
